Between Friends: Your chance to do a double mitzvah!
Help others and divert items from the land fill.
The Synagogues that make up the Bayview Corridor; Beit Rayim, Beth Tikvah, Kehillat
Shaarei Torah, Shaar Shalom, Temple Emanu-El and Temple Har Zion are teaming up
with “Between Friends” to collect some badly needed items for fourteen Aboriginal
communities in Northern Ontario.
Most requested items are:
Clothing – In good condition. If you wouldn’t wear it because it is damaged or
soiled, please do not send it.
Reading books (children’s, teens and adult) – Please no text books or
damaged, written in books.
Puzzles and games. Please make sure that all the pieces are enclosed and
that the boxes are properly sealed.
Toys
Linens, including towels, dish towels, sheets and pillow cases. Items must be
in good condition. Please do not send stained or threadbare items.
Blankets
Skates
Hockey Sticks
Your donations can be dropped off at “Kids Come First” daycare
between 7:30 AM – 2 PM Monday to Friday at:
40 New Westminster Drive (at Steeles, between Bathurst and Dufferin).
Thornhill, Ontario L4J 7Z8
Contact person is Maxine Roness Ph: (905) 660-3467
Do not go into the public school. The entrance to the daycare is through the black
wrought iron gates.
Items will be sorted by Kids Come First teachers and volunteers and then sent by
transport truck bound for several northern hubs. First Nations with road access pick up
their own boxes. Remote communities receive their boxes by various means including
small, single engine prop planes, and OPP detachments.
Coming in October we will also be collecting sporting equipment including skates,
hockey equipment, skis and bicycles for Chiippewa of Nawash and Saugeen Ojibway
First Nation. They are located within an hour of Owen Sound, one on Lake Huron and
one on the west coast of Georgian Bay. These will be driven up to the reserves by
Bayview Corridor volunteers. If you can donate a truck or van please contact Cheryl
Cash cherylcash@sympatico.ca. In the interim, please keep these items aside until we
can give you further details.